Gift Cards for Survey

How the scam works:

(with explanatory video below) Scammers send mass-emails, request recipients to participate in a survey, and promise a gift card in return. The crooks pose as retail chains or fast food restaurants (latest name used is Zara) and use the real logos to make it seem legitimate.

Participants who respond and enter personal information often find that, instead of receiving a gift card, they receive calls from telemarketers. Through the survey, the scammers attain participants' email addresses, phone numbers and home addresses.

The worst comes not when your personal info is sold to telemarketers, but when your identity is stolen.

The other variation of this fraud is the Facebook Free Gift Card scam. The crooks ask you to fill out a survey in order to receive the card, as well as clicking the "Like" button. Filling out the form and sending it over provides the scammers access to your personal information, including passwords and bank accounts. Amongst the Faceook/Twitter Free Gift Card scams found on the social networking websites are big brand names used by the crooks.

Watch the video below to see in action a third and most lucrative (for the scammers) variation of the Gift Card for Survey Scam, exposed in the news.

People love freebies and that's exactly what scammers use as bait to get your info. Buy the online gift cards through legitimate sources, but first make sure the website is authentic and not cloned. And Facebook or Twitter free gift cards? Hmmm...no. If you really want to participate in rewards programs and gift cards are your weakness, use Swagbucks.com, which is the world's largest free online rewards program. You get paid by doing things online which you might do anyway, such as searching the web, discover products, take surveys, watch videos, or play games. You can also get free iTunes and Amazon cards. The company has a A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. You can register for free HERE.

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Got a popup ad on some page I was trying to read. It was the free $1000 Walmart gift scam. I regret not using my common sense.

I'm getting calls all day, now an message with a link I DID NOT open.

Why did I do thi$? I'm smarter than this!!

14th, December 2016

Posted By: Frantz

Hi there is would really want to win the 1,000 gift card. ?

26th, November 2016

Posted By: Esmeralda Janet Mary

I woke up this morning 9:43 AM to a call from New York looking like this # +1(929) 235-1572 (2) there was an option to choose 1 or 2 1reward of 100$ for a year for a restaurant Walmart Best Buy Target and Amazon only I can manage the gift or 2 to decline it. I choose 1 of course I was interested and then there was a wait in line with a classical song. Then the person answered he first asked me what was my first & last name, my address then zip code and then to pay for the shipping with a credit or debit card. I asked my mom for it because I don't have one yet my mom knew it was a scam because she said they didn't have my information of name or email if you supposedly filed out a form online in a website they should know a part of your information but they asked for my name so I believed her and she told them I don't believe you are just a scam bye. The person didn't call back. A reward should be given in the mail and not asked for your bank account for shipping paying 4 dollars. You guys need to be ware of this it's my first calling scam I recieve.

26th, November 2016

Posted By: I'm not going to put my real name

I got a webpage from a site that said about me winning a $1000 Walmart giftcard. I wanted accept soooo badly, but then I relized it was problem a scam. Im glad I didn't accept. Thanks for this awesome page!!!

2nd, November 2016

Posted By: Kohl's Gift Card

I just received an email supposedly coming from Kohl's. The subject title is: "Go Shopping at KOHLS with a $50 Gift Card!?" Then a nice image with this gift card shows up. When you click on it it took me to a random website dogcatselfie.com, where there are a bunch of videos non-related to Kohl's! Scam!

30th, October 2016

Posted By: netstrada

Macys promissied to make a check as a discount in next 6 months and never sent it. macys itself doing a scam

20th, August 2016

Posted By: Kaleey

I love this page but first time

29th, July 2016

Posted By: Gregory Kirkland

I've filled out so many of surveys it's crazy
Never received anything?

11th, March 2016

Posted By: Jane

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1st, November 2015

Posted By: Jessica horten

Isn't the iPhone and free apple products scams to I mean the Facebook thing and etc what I learned is to never trust ads

5th, October 2015

Posted By: ariana grande

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22nd, September 2015

Posted By: AY

I got redirected to a site requesting me to take a survery when trying to go to facebook.
Seems a bit shady. The url contained visitor.faceusersurvery and just didn't seem very legitimate.

9th, September 2015

Posted By: Lucy Munoz

is Paid Surveys at Home a scam?

7th, August 2015

Posted By: amanda

Recently did a survey for loweszzonestore but was directed to a site claiming I could win a $100 visa gift card if I answer more questions. Knew it was possible misdirected so I cancelled the page.

Weeks later (today) I received a phone call from (615) 808-4831 with a lady on the line. She sounded Indian and asked if I could hear her. I said yes then she proceeded to tell me that I needed to answer one last question for the survey I filled out prior and that I'd recieve a gift card after I answered.

She told me the reason I would get this visa gift card was because I must've answered positively to the survey questions. I kept telling her that I didn't know what she was talking about until she hung up in frustration. I looked up the number online while doing this to find another few people have had this occur with them as well. Some filled a survey directed from a trusted site then were misdirected to the scam. Others claim they never took a survey to begin with.

13th, June 2015

Posted By: Junua

Teddy, no! Don't take it.

29th, May 2015

Posted By: Teddy Kohrt

I have an offer for a $100 gift card from kol's if I take a survey. Is this legitimate?

29th, May 2015

Posted By: bernadette kinlaw

hi my is bernadette .the reason why I'm sending you message i will like to win a gift card $1,000.00 for the very first-time.my mom have die of stage 4 cancer i stay home to take good care of her she passed alway December 10_2014.and yesterday was my birthday and i never got what i needed and i will like to get something nice

10th, May 2015

Posted By: tina

yesterday i got a message on my phone from deals@pizz.tk: its it fraud or how would i redeem it?

23rd, March 2015

Posted By: debra velez

Just filled out forms for store credit for Macy's an kolhs .is this a legit thing

17th, November 2014

Posted By: Bonnie Goodwin

It would be great to get this I always shop Kmart for Christmas thank you Kmart

29th, October 2014

Posted By: Nell Parris

Would come in handy at this time!

12th, October 2014

Posted By: Gerald

I received this one today. It's probably a scam! Did anybody else get it?

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1st, August 2014

Posted By: Andy

Just receive a similar call. Free $100 Gift Card and $50 Dining Card ... then at the end they ask for my Birthday and Mastercard number so they could put a $ 1.95 processing charge on it ! ha ha RIGHT !!! Hung up as soon as that came across !

3rd, June 2014

Posted By: diveka

Kathryn Thames, did you recieve the $100 gift card? I had the same phone call yesterday.

14th, May 2014

Posted By: Woozleheart

I typed in facenook.com accidentally and got this page: visitor.faceusersurvery.com/test/?

It looks like a scam.

1st, April 2014

Posted By: Kathryn Thames

I received a phone call telling me I had won a $100 gift card and a $50 dining card, but they wouldn't say what company gave the survey. Shouldn't the sponsoring company be known to survey takers? The call came from Guadelupe California phone number 805-219-6032

19th, March 2014

Posted By: Furries Rule

I get this all the time at college. Thank god iOS 7 allows blocking, and so does Android. These are annoying. Every week I would get a text from walmart (obviously it isn't them just someone pretending to be).

If it is too good to be true it is.

8th, December 2013

Posted By: Honest Citizen

I can't believe that everyone likes to scam honest hard working people.

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